Alan Pater
@alanpater
vegan restaurateur | the profane buddha canada | the world
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli
What's ironic is that the production of animal-based foods is the major driver of the biodiversity crisis. With that knowledge, the fix becomes obvious. www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/u...
I think that we can continue to use oil to produce plastics, polyester, lubricants and such. We need to stop burning the stuff, but we can still use it, as long as we power the industrial processes with clean energy. www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
Global GHG emissions from all sources are likely to exceed 55 billion metric tons in 2025.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
For those interested in sourcing protein with the smallest environmental footprint, we present: The lowly bean! Delicious, nutritious, economical, and traditional in diets around the globe. What's not to love?
There is more on how shifting diets would help in this article. ourworldindata.org/carbon-oppor...
Disappointing that fixing food's big climate problem did not make the list. www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapte...
Here is another chart from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social. The problem is not just fossil fuels. Burning oil and gas is 62% of the problem, but the our forests will still burn if we don't cut the other 38% as well. drawdown.org/climate-solu...